Are there inherent limits to the behavioral capacities of artifacts? How would that differ from human bodies? Are not both arrangements of universe, of “stuff”? Why would one substrate permit abilities inaccessible to others? In this week’s Short the Dawdlers muse about Artificial Intelligence: what are its limits, if any– Read more…
Harland and Ryan were born on the same day 3 years apart. December 22. To celebrate they’re doing an episode on consciousness and how you, yes you, dont have it!! Happy birthday to us, eh? Eh… They don’t know philosopher Keith Frankish’s birthday, but he doesn’t think you have consciousness Read more…
This time the Dawdler’s examine Daniel Dennett’s book “Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking” (2013). Regardless of all that, these two tools think they think. Topics explored are philosophical zombies, Occam’s Razor, black boxes, and sorta operators. Do you smell that? It’s the sweet potpourri of Dennettian thinkadinks. -Dawds Read more…